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Well-Being and Fair Distribution : Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis
Adler, Matthew D. - 2014
Well-Being and Fair Distribution provides a rigorous and comprehensive defense of the “social welfare function” as a tool for evaluating governmental policies. In particular, it argues for a “prioritarian” social welfare function: one that gives greater weight to well-being changes...
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More than a feeling : a global economic valuation of subjective wellbeing damages resulting from rising temperatures
Dietrich, Stephan; Nichols, Stafford - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233893
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Valuing Public Goods : The Life Satisfaction Approach
Stutzer, Alois; Luechinger, Simon; Frey, Bruno S. - 2004
This paper discusses a novel approach to elicit people's preferences for public goods, namely the life satisfaction … these countries depresses life satisfaction in a sizeable and robust way. However, the calculation of the trade-off between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071402
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Well-Being Analysis vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis
Bronsteen, John; Buccafusco, Christopher; Masur, Jonathan S. - 2014
Cost-benefit analysis is the primary tool used by policymakers to inform administrative decisionmaking. Yet its methodology of converting preferences (often hypothetical ones) into dollar figures, then using those dollar figures as proxies for quality of life, creates systemic errors so large as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014041735
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The economic value of the Glass Beach : contingent valuation and life satisfaction approaches
Otrachshenko, Vladimir; Tyurina, Elena; Nagapetyan, Artur - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 198 (2022), pp. 1-22
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The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois - 2009
individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction …-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare …. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662775
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The value of public service broadcasting in Japan : the life satisfaction approach
Okuyama, Naoko - 2017
effect of viewing public service broadcasting on individual well-being using the life satisfaction approach in quantitative … associated with life satisfaction, even after successfully addressing the endogenous nature of television viewing. It is also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011750480
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … equivalent of health changes. Next, the health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to estimate the … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001613893
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model for monetary appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … equivalent of health changes. Next, the health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to estimate the … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435018
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The subjective costs of health losses due to chronic diseases : an alternative model appraisal
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2001
satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in health satisfaction would do. In other words, we estimate the income … equivalent of health changes. Next, the health satisfaction changes are linked to specific diseases in order to estimate the … income equivalent for various diseases. This method uses answers to well-being and health satisfaction questions as posed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402365